Journey Through Bookland @ Together Gallery

Journey Through Bookland opened at Together Gallery this past thursday. The show features work that has an emphasis on stroytelling, including work by Julianna Swaney, Nas Chompas, Amy Kligman, Seth Neefus, Ghraham Kahler and Aiden Koch. The show will be up until March 24th. At the website you can view and purchase work from the exhibition.

Together Gallery is at 2314 Alberta St in Portland, OR.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday / 12-3 pm
Wed-Sat / 12-6 pm
Sunday / 12-5 pm
Or by appointment or chance

Heinrich & Cheryl Toh

Last night randomly at an art auction I met artists Heinrich and Cheryl Toh. Both are Kansas City artists right now, but as self-proclaimed "art gypsies", they've travelled and lived all around the country. Both artists do beautiful work that maintains a kind of strangely "floaty" quality...misty and ephemeral. Both employ pattern...Cheryl's encaustic and mixed media pieces speak abstractly about communication, and interactions. Henrich's prints and installations deal with fading cultural influence and traditions.

Nancy Baker Cahill

This series by LA artist Nancy Baker Cahill depicts sheep as beauty contestants, each assigned personalities and titles like "best smile", "first and second runners up", etc, to talk about the bizarre distortion of vulnerable girls into objects.

Lotte Geeven

These pieces are from a series by Lotte Geeven called "Backyard Vocabulary". The work explores nature's way of filling up the world with its own kind of "wallpaper"...sometimes geometric, sometimes mathematical, often dense and beautiful.

Lotte's website reveals a plethera of curious projects...often taking a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating photography, installation, drawing,etc. Much of the work explores the interaction of nature with the city, and vice versa, translating elements of both into poetic observations.

AmyK- new work from 2008

Ok, so my website is pretty complicated to update and for that reason, it hasn't been updated in like over a year. We're probably going to be redesigning it sometime this summer-ish...but in the meantime, I've set up a temporary page that has the work from the show I did at Urban Culture Project (back in October). I have another show coming up at the end of February, and I'll be adding that work to this page as well, so keep an eye out. :)

Liu Bolin

These are images from Liu Bolin's "urban camouflage" series. In the series, Liu photographs chinese citizens covered in paint that mimicks the environment they are placed in, so that the people seem almost transparent. In his photography, Liu expresses a desire to break through the confines of China's past and escape the present state of flux and change in Chinese society as it begins to adopt capitalist values and rapid economic growth. The images reflect a haunting loss of identity and a desire to be at peace in a conflicted environment.